What is the opening scene in your comic?

[quakeulf]

Scenery:

[Sanz]

mine starts off in the middle of an event..I hate the wake up and click the alarm thing..haha who cares how he starts his day for Issue 1

Issue 2 starts off with a daydream into the mind of the a main character

Issue 3 starts off off skipping a bunch of boring travel and ending up where they are headed at the end of issue 2

I always dig right in and get to the point in each issue . usually followed by some transition to relating characters. Personally I don't like reading one page where it doesn't tell me what is going on. like a dude waking up in the AM. considering the first two issues of Los Esmeraldas are pretty much story set up and character intros. I think beginning in the middle of an event works out. but don't get me wrong there will be a a cliche point where someone clicks an alarm, but only when I can't think of anything else

[shaneoid77]

Mine starts in one of my characters beard. It's ok, it's a magical beard.

[jessicasurline]

Whetstone's Prologue begins like this:

and Chapter 1 begins with this:

[60Six]

So City of Blank is actually a reboot of my older version of the comic, but the two versions had VERY different openings. This time, I wanted to start things off with a bang to hook people in so I took that sort of...literally.


In the last version, I left out all mentioning of this Mikiah character until fairly far into the story, and being a very important part of the story, I decided to go ahead and say who he is and hint at the trouble he got into to hopefully get readers curious about just went down to get to this point.
This is a really big point in my story that I can't wait to go back to and show all the different perspectives of and make things finally make sense some day when I finally get to this scene again!

[HOME]

It's hard to know how to give a good start to your comic.
But I think even a first episode (like the prologue of my sci-fi comic HOME) must have already some attractive concepts since the very beginning.
What do you think?

Some panels from the prologue of HOME:

[SpavVy]

Mine starts out very VERY dark ^^; eheh.
It starts off with a child being sacrificed by a cult that his mother is part of, he soon wakes up in Hell where he meets this strange girl with dark intentions.

My comic Soul Ascendance is still in its opening currently, I still have about four pages to go until chapter one is finished and oh boy, I cannot wait to be done with this chapter and just move on.

But so far it seems my readers enjoy its creepy atmosphere.

[maddadam94]

my comic's called "who's your daddy?"

well, i can certainly say that i didn't dwell on some kind of fancy opening. since that wouldn't fit the story. or the way i want to tell it.

[niinasalmelin]

I start [Numb][1] with going straight to the party (In this case showing a corpse of one of the main characters) It's a mystery comic so what's better way to go into it than confusing everyone.

[r0ckrabbi7]

Depending on the story, I always start differently.. But it's mostly always something that gives a hint about what the story is about.. and then it goes to a completely different direction, because I'm terrible at storytelling xD

[NickRowler]

OK, I fully admit I'm not 100% in love with my first page.

I started with a establishing shot, then I go straight into the action. I guess it is a bit cliche but I tried not to linger too much on it.

I think this opening scene in a flashback (this chapter is not posted yet) is much stronger personally. It has a much better establishing shot and establishes the two characters a lot better.

I guess my style is more just going straight into the story and not worrying about large wordy introductions.

[SirHellsir]

I have a rule for this one, start with a scene that is going to be fundamental for the story (most likely the one that triggers the plot) and from that jump to the protagonist.
It can be a memory, flashback, dream, or an event happening in a different location. Most of the time with little to no dialogue at all.

[TristanJensen]

Kind of a standard waking up scene I guess, *second time trying this so I'm sticking to what I know :/

[Niles]

I was looking at this and thinking 'don't do it Niles. Don't do it.' because mne opened with sauce. But screw my mind - I'm going to show it anyway! >:)

Your mind is open and free to do what you want with that world! Enjoy the creative thoughts and start with them!

[Kura]

The opening for No Future

[KSlinger]

West opens with a question 'Heading West, Son?'

The reply is 'Might be. Why?'

So the opening is just a conversation and then we're into the story. I didn't want to mess around with a prologue, though one could have been made appropriate. Sometimes it's best to just dive in.

[TomSawyer]

Well for anyone curious
I started my series "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
By introducing myself, my goal, and my problem immediately

https://tapastic.com/episode/367738

[Michelle]

Centralia 2050 starts out a little cliche with the whole "character wakes up in strange location" bit, but there's intention behind it that makes it suit the story so that's really all that matters in my book. :T

Though if I could change it, I might have added more dialogue to the first chapter's opening. It's pretty minimal on the talking for the first 9-10 pages, and I worry people lose patience for that sort of thing.

[ArhyaM]

THe intro for my series is a whole chapter, but the last page can resume the most important part

The glow

Every time I look a the first pages I feel a bit ashamed with the drawing style, but that's the main reason why started it: to keep improving! ^^

[AffectedMind]

Stalking
You know... Like every romance comic should have :v
But in all seriousness, I wanted to introduce the main and her little "problem" first.
My series